Lyons Daily News, Lyons, Rice Co, Kansas, Monday, April 26, 1954:
(This obituary follows a story in the Lyons Daily News of the explosion and fire in the Avery Mercantile building in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 25, 1954. Mrs Nichols (Anna Louise Clutter Cavenee Nichols) was a resident of one of the apartments above the store. She had escaped the building and fire, but had gone back to her apartment to get her canary and died as the result of a heart attack and suffocation from the smoke.)


ANNA NICHOLS
Funeral services will be conducted for Mrs Nichols at the Crawford-Miller mortuary in Lyons at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with Rev O W Reece in charge. Burial will be in the Lyons cemetery.
Mrs Nichols' body will lie in state at the mortuary from 7 to 9 o'clock this evening.
Mrs Nichols was the widow of the late J D Cavenee, an early day resident of Lyons. Following his death in 1918 (1919), she married John Nichols of Kinsley. He died several years ago.
Born in Celino (Celina), Ohio, March 12, 1871, Mrs Nichols spent most of her life in Lyons. She was a member of the Christian Church and the Rebeckah Lodge.
At the time of her death, Mrs Nichols was the oldest member of the Christian Church.
Surviving are five daughters: Mrs W D Smith of Lyons, Mrs Forrest Folck of Little River, Mrs W R Folck of Peoria, Illinois, Mrs C B Rose of Longmont, Colorado and Mrs Edward Krase of Cheney; a son, James Cavenee of Great Bend, (son Fred Cavenee of Haven), 2 step-sons, Arch Cavenee of Lyons and Ray Cavenee of Maple Valley, Washington; 3 brothers, Charles and James Clutter of Larned and John Clutter of Alvin, Texas; 2 sisters, Mrs Charles Deal of Little River, Mrs Henry Goff of Long Beach, California; 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.